1. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Presenter: Kristen Storey Interim Director Human Resource Development Leaders of great groups love talent and know where to find it. They revel in the talent of others. -Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Organizing Genius

2. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Please stand up if you can say yes to this question: At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday.

3. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent What is a strength? An innate ability that is naturally recurring in a person’s pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior.

4. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Typically American work places tend to spend a lot of money on training employees to address knowledge and skill gaps. This strategy becomes very expensive when there is no change in performance

5. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Awareness Tools for Leveraging Talent ToolInformation Use Personal Profile System (DiSC)Behavioral Assessment Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorPersonality Indicator Index of Learning ProfilesLearning Style Competing ValuesBehavioral Assessment Strengths FinderTalents and abilities Team Effectiveness ProfileBehavioral Assessment

6. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Questions?

7. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent How HRD as team uses the Strengths Finder tool: All read the book Completed the online assessment tool Mapped and shared our collective strengths Discussed where there are differences and similarities (see shaded bars) exist among us and implications

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9. How I use this tool and others: Continue to examine tasks and special projects for what strengths and abilities are required and assign accordingly Hold ongoing performance discussions related to what areas of their work they enjoy and believe they excel at Observe work outputs for what tasks they perform well and build on those successes Use management strategies to better capitalize on their strength (see last half of book)

10. Now, Discover Your Strengths: Increasing Productivity Through Leveraging Talent Why bother? Is it really worth the effort? Yes! Benefits experienced: Staff morale and motivation stays high Staff feel and demonstrate engagement in their work and environment Productivity stays high—deadlines are met, customers are satisfied. etc Performance discussions are productive

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